It's not small thing to have conservative heavyweight
Charles Krauthammer in your corner, or at least
giving you a fair chance -- you will recall Donald
Trump's so-called presidential campaign never fully
bounced back from Krauthammer's criticism.

Last night on Bill
O'Reilly's show Krauthammer gave Cain what one
assumes is the fairest support Cain can expect to hear from the
conservative establishment. Kraut isn't buying Cain's
conspiracy blame game, but on the whole thinks he pulled off his
press conference yesterday "intact".

"I think he crossed the wire just about intact. I think he made
one mistake, to blindly blame it on what he called the democratic
machine. You can't go around making charges if you don't
know whether they're true or not....but on substance I thought he
defended himself in a way that was rather effective....I think he
should stop throwing out accusations and simply talk about the
subjects....And because you can't know [the details of what
happened) you have to have some sympathy with all sides...at
least you ought to have some humility in judging the players
here."